Once upon a time I was a natural environmental science graduate, and one of my dilemmas at age 21 was whether or not to undertake a funded PhD on peat bog recla...
Motivation is a complicated beast. Traditionally broken into intrinsic and extrinsic types, students may be motivated by a whole host of competing and intertwin...
A significant proportion of students in schools in the UK use English as an additional language (EAL). Latest figures show that EAL learners in England account ...
This article argues for a situated perspective of new teachers’ work and professional learning, and highlights important considerations for retention and succes...
Although classroom computers have been with us since the 1970s, schools have only recently become truly ‘digital’. Now, every school seems full of digital devic...
In recent years, the slideshow presentation has become so ubiquitous in our schools that it has become rare to walk into a lesson and not see one on display. Ho...
In the five years to 2012, UK schools spent more than £1 billion on digital technology, ‘an investment that did not necessarily result in radical improvements t...
While there is no shortage of polarised (and polarising) debates in education, the question of whether or not schools should ban mobile phones has received part...
This article reports the initial findings undertaken by a transnational team of academics and teachers funded from an Erasmus+ project entitled ‘Designing and E...
I don’t think anyone would deny that there are barriers to the effective use of digital technologies in education: from the fundamentals such as a stable and se...
In 2018, Secretary of State for Education Damian Hinds issued a challenge to the education technology industry to help solve some of the most pressing problems ...
The ‘blended learning’ strategy
Blended learning is described by Garrison and Kanuka (Garrison and Kanuka , 2004) as ‘the thoughtful integration of classroom f...
In the past decade, classrooms have begun to shift away from textbooks, notebooks, pens and pencils and towards electronic media. In college classrooms, increas...
Today’s students are the first generation to grow up surrounded by technology. Laptops, e-readers and other digital tools are almost omnipresent, both in and ou...
Much of the discussion surrounding digital games tends to focus on the possible negative aspects, including children and young people spending too much time pla...
Research suggests that difficulties in low-level transcriptional processes such as handwriting and spelling or capitalisation can affect the quality and fluency...
The New Wave Federation consists of three high-performing local authority primary schools in Hackney, Inner London. Improving outcomes through academic success ...
Technology for learners with literacy difficulties is used widely in higher education, but not yet in schools. A survey of students eligible for assistive techn...
In the last few decades, the evidence from neuroscience and cognitive psychology has enriched our understanding of how we learn (Bransford et al., 2000). School...
There has been significant talk recently about the place of, and the use of, the textbook in teaching both in primary and secondary schools, with Department for...
